Nine months after its suspicious establishment, the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) announced on Monday the end of its operations in the Gaza Strip, closing a dark, bloody chapter of the Israeli genocide against Palestinians. Rather than alleviating suffering, the GHF became a central actor in deepening Gaza’s starvation, humiliation, and mass casualties. Its short-lived mission will be remembered not for humanitarian relief, but for entrenching one of the most brutal starvation-engineering operations in modern history.

Completely detached from the human tragedy it helped manufacture, GHF Executive Director John Acree claimed the group had been “successful in its mission of showing there’s a better way to deliver aid to Gazans.” Yet his celebratory tone cannot erase the well-documented record of violence, chaos, and death at GHF distribution sites. Footage that circulated widely on social media forced the world to see the truth: GHF’s aid system was militarised, dehumanising, and deadly. Its final statement did not even acknowledge a single one of the Palestinian casualties caused by its operations—an omission that reflects the group’s utter disregard for the people it claimed to serve.

From its operations’ launch in May 2025, Palestinians viewed the GHF with deep suspicion, seeing it as an Israeli-designed mechanism to replace the UN’s established humanitarian system and to engineer famine under the guise of aid. The UN itself repeatedly warned that the GHF was a political........

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